Claim · model-written summary
T. superba seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Taxon
- T. superba
Terminalia superbae0 - Organ / stage
- Seedse0
- Outcome
- sigmoidal relationship between seed water content and relative humiditye0
- Qualifier
- three regions of water bindinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Seeds of T. superba, T. ivorensis, M. altissima, E. angolense and K. anthotheca, exhibited a sigmoidal relationship between seed water content and relative humidity indicative of three regions of water binding”
Title
Water Sorption Isotherm Characteristics of Seeds of Six Indigenous Forest Tree Species in Ghana
NS Olympio; JM Asomaning; M Sacande West African Journal of Applied Ecology 2011. doi:10.4314/wajae.v18i1.70312
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation E. angolense seeds reached equilibrium in 13 days.
- Observation G. kola seeds reached equilibrium in 91 days.
- Observation T. ivorensis seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation M. altissima seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation E. angolense seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation K. anthotheca seeds showed a sigmoidal moisture-content versus humidity relationship.
- Observation G. kola seeds showed a reversed sigmoid isotherm, like orthodox species rather than a monotonic curve.
- Association Seed moisture content increased with relative humidity.
- Observation G. kola seeds lost water at every relative humidity tested.
- Observation Other species seeds either lost or absorbed water depending on ambient relative humidity.